Confusion about whether and how early years settings need to register under the Data Protection Act 1988 has been made all the greater by commercial agencies targeting small businesses and offering to handle their registration for them -for a fee.
Some such agencies are also adopting scare tactics by reminding businesses that failure to register is a criminal offence, for which the current maximum fine is 5,000.
Brian Griffiths, who with his wife Joan runs Burton Latimer Day Nursery near Kettering, Northamptonshire, is just one of the nursery owners to be have been targeted.
He explains, 'I received a letter from one of them and I had to read it twice before I realised that it didn't come from the Information Commissioner (formerly known as the Data Protection Registrar).
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